Cape Vulture

[Nico Steenberg]

Photographed at Giants Castle in harsh light

Canon EOS 40D
EF500mm f/4L IS USM

Tv 1/3200Sec.
Av F8.0
ISO 800

[Jeff Dyck]

Love the pose and you've done very well retaining detail in both the highlights and shadows given the lighting conditions. If it were mine I would consider cloning out the diagonal background line intersecting the wingtip.

[Nico Steenberg]

Thank you for viewing and commenting Jeff. Its highly appreciated !

The top left wing was blown and mange to recover it in RAW :)

[Randy Stout]

Nico:

Classic Giant's castle look, agree about the harsh light, but if you haven't done some already, I think you can tease out some more detail by careful dodging of the shadowed areas.

I would def. work on the side of the face/eye and some on the body as well.

Cheers

Randy

[RAM MALLYA]

Wow liked the BG and the pose

[Jan Fourie]

nice landing shot Nico with great posture,comp and exp in harsh light

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Nico, how was GC? Well timed for the landing, and I like the detail on the head. LC tomorrow???

[Nico Steenberg]

Thanks guys for viewing and commenting. Its highly appreciated :)

[Nico Steenberg]

Hey Nico, how was GC? Well timed for the landing, and I like the detail on the head. LC tomorrow???

CG was a great experience Stu will tell you all about it tomorrow at LC !

[Bonnie Block]

Love the pose---I agree that the bg could be cleaned up a bit for more effect.
Great image--go back when the light is right! :) Very cool.

[Nico Steenberg]

Thank you bonnie for viewing and commenting. Its higly appreciated